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" When you get a bunch of Latinxs together, we get to handle our stories. A cultural shorthand happens. "
Tanya Saracho
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" I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that. "
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" When I was in school, I didn't get exposed to Latino playwrights. "
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" The thing is about 'Vida,' we're telling a very simple family narrative. There's nothing fancy about it. "
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" Shouldn't you be able to tell your stories from your point of view? We're dealing with that with 'Looking' where some queers are like, 'These guys are so boring! They don't represent me!' But no show can represent everything, so is it OK for us, in 'Looking,' to write about these three men and their world? "
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" Any time you have to move in two days, it's crazy. It's like, 'Who am I going to get to take care of my cat? "
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" Pleasures. I had to cut them back so I can write. And it's worked! It so has. But I am the most boring human on the planet. "
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" In lots of ways, I've been trying to tell stories this way since I started writing plays: a female-centered story with queer, Latinx gaze. "
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" I am equally a writer and an actor and a director. "
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" I always was missing that female brown queer perspective, and I think in 'Vida' we have that. A lot of things I wanted to touch on and deal with, I get to do here. "
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" I have been watching male programming all my life. And I'm completely interested in it. Like, I love 'Breaking Bad' and I like 'Game of Thrones.' "
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" When I got to 'Looking,' I didn't know that you could write stuff and they would put it on TV. That was that experience. My boss was Andrew Haigh and he came from film; he had never done TV. It was his first TV show, and he was running it. And I think he was like, 'Write it, and we'll put it on.' It was lovely. "
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Looking
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" You're on set more when you produce an episode, and it's long hours, but you learn so much. "
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Much
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" I went in for a meeting with Marta Fernandez, and she said, 'We are looking for a female millennial show. Have you heard of the term 'chipster'?' And I was like, 'Of course - Chicana hipster.' "
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Show
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Said
" I'm not a good business person when it comes to my writing. "
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Business
Person
" Glutton things, those are things that are dangerous for me. My grandma and my aunt died of diabetes; I'm borderline diabetic. "
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" Other people started taking me seriously before I took myself seriously. "
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Started
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" I just wanted to put together the best Latinx writers. I didn't care about the level.They have a passion for 'Vida' in a different way, in a higher way. "
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Together
Best
Just
" No one guided me through it, but here is how it happened: I was in New York doing a play, and an agent got in touch with me and said he wanted to take me out for lunch. In the theatre, they never want to take you out for lunch, so I thought, 'Yes!' I went, I ordered steak, and he told me he thought I should write for TV. "
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Lunch
Me
New York
" I would like to do more millennial, Latina, complicated stories. "
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" When 'Vida' got the green light, Starz sent me this picnic basket of Jamie Fraser red wine and all these 'Outlander' things that I'll never open because it's like my sacred thing. "
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" When I got to Scotland, I signed up on a site called Meetup. It's like these group things you can do - a poetry reading, a hike, whatever. "
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" I'm sad about my theatre career, but I've also fallen a bit in love with TV! "
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Fallen
Career
TV
" I feel like progress will be made in the landscape of Latino influence when we get to tell those murky, real, close-to-life narratives. "
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Progress
Influence
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" So many times, shows say they're set somewhere - like in Chicago, 'The Good Wife' - but it doesn't feel like Chicago. "
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" Sometimes people of color walk into these spaces that are dominated by the dominant culture, and we have to be better, not make as much trouble. "
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" I had never heard this term before - gente-fication - which is also happening in Portland, Houston; it's happening in a lot of cities. It's upwardly mobile Latinx who want to come back to their neighborhoods where they grew up - or it's Latinx moving to L.A. and looking for a Latinx neighborhood to live or open a business. "
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" Write about your experiences! When I moved to L.A., I didn't have any friends, and the office janitor was the person who I saw the most. He would always come in at around 10:00 P.M., and I would still be at my desk, so I wrote a play about a first-year TV writer and the friendship that she developed with the janitor. Our stories matter. "
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Friendship
Friends
She
" I am not a quiet person. "
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" I'm always writing. There's no stopping. It's just that you can't see it sometimes. "
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